Convective

Putting artificial intelligence into production is the work of Convective, an enterprise firm that says it has spent 28 years on enterprise software and has worked on production AI since 2019. It works for corporate and public-sector clients in sectors such as healthcare, insurance, retail and aerospace. The firm presents itself as a partner that builds the systems an organization depends on, rather than an adviser that only writes reports.

Four stages from audit to handover

The method runs in four stages. Audit and strategy identifies the AI opportunities with the highest return in a client's actual workflows. Build and integrate creates custom AI connected to the systems a client already runs, including ColdFusion applications, and the work is production grade from the first day. Ship and monitor deploys the system and watches how it performs in use. Transfer and own hands over the code, models and infrastructure, so that the customer can run the work without depending on the firm.

Case work for an insurer, a retailer and NASA

Three case studies show the range of this work. For an insurance and benefits administrator in the United States, Convective rebuilt 33 core operational systems as modern applications, validating each one against the original before the switch. For Ace Hardware it built a do-it-yourself guidance portal connected to the retailer's product catalog. For NASA it created an inventory visibility platform that tracks components in real time across every facility at the Kennedy Space Center.

Web and mobile applications on React and AWS

The firm also builds custom web and mobile applications using React, React Native and AWS. It says it has built hundreds of applications that run on desktop and mobile, for enterprise and government customers. Its process engages users early and often to avoid costly rewrites later in a project, and it provides instrumentation that gives visibility into application metrics, with real-time alerts so that problems can be found and fixed early.

Modernizing legacy systems without a big-bang switch

When an organization's core system is ageing, the company describes a mobility modernization process that layers mobile-friendly APIs over existing systems. This allows native iOS and Android applications to be built from a single codebase. It also offers full stack user experience monitoring, which starts in the browser or mobile application and follows performance through every tier of the delivery chain.